Scientific Data Extraction Skill

Overview

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for extracting structured data from scientific literature across multiple input formats (PDF, HTML, images, plain text). It auto-detects the scientific domain to recommend specialized tools when appropriate (particularly for chemistry and materials science) and employs a hierarchical extraction approach with multi-method validation for high-confidence results.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

• Extract numerical data from scientific papers, reports, or documents
• Digitize graphs and plots to recover underlying data points
• Parse tables from PDFs or images into structured formats (CSV, DataFrame, JSON)
• Extract chemical/materials data including properties, reactions, compounds, and structures
• Convert unstructured text to structured JSON or tabular formats
• Validate extracted data through multi-method cross-checking
• Process document batches with consistent extraction methodology

Input Format Detection